The Hush of Expansion

A letter writing game set among the stars of the human diaspora

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The Hush of Expansion is a science-fiction game set between the events of A Thousand Screaming Mutes (~22nd century) and the Silence of the Stars (~32nd century) – respectively books 2 and 1 of my Quietus trilogy. It is being run using the Callisto rules for running play-by-(e)mail games.

Setting

Our planet, the Earth, is, as far as we know, unique in the universe: it contains life.
~ David Attenborough

The universe in which all this takes place is one which is similar to our own, but in which there are a few and important significant differences. The timeline from the 21st century to the 23rd century (when this game takes place) is reasonably similar to what you might expect our own timeline to be – assuming we don’t wipe each other out first…